Recycle Paper Baskets

• Craft Paints in desired Colors
• Glue stick
• Newspaper
• Paint Brush
• Scissors
• Tape

• Cut out eight newspaper pieces in a rectangle of 13 ½ by 22 inches and four newspaper pieces that are a rectangle of 11 by 27 inches.
• Tightly roll the longer edge of the newspaper pieces to make a newspaper tube reed.
• Flatten the tube reed and glue the open edge.
• Now lay down four 22-inch long reeds side by side on a flat surface and weave the other four 22 inch reeds, positioned to the center, to form the bottom of the basket.
• Now fold the unwoven part of the paper reeds up to form the side spokes.
• Now tape one end of one of the 27-inch long reed to the base of a spoke and weave it in and out of the side spokes all around to form the basket.
• Tuck the other end behind a spoke.
• Weave in other reeds, in similar fashion, one above the other.
• Fold the spoke tops into the basket and tuck them behind a reed.
• Paint the finished basket well inside and outside and you may even paint and add decorative symbols to your paper basket.